Neuropathic pain: how to recognise and manage

How the condition is diagnosed and managed, including non-pharmacological options

Self-care advice that pharmacists and their teams can offer to patients

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Neuropathic pain is a type of chronic pain that results from damage to the nerves. It can present as sensory (numbness, increased sensitivity), motor (weakness) and autonomic (temperature, sweating) changes.(1) It is defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system(2) – the part of the sensory system involved with the conscious perception of touch, pain, temperature, pressure, position and movement, which comes from the muscles, joints